specifically to you senator, could you vote in the affirmative for a justice who you believe might find the defensive marriage act which determines that same-sex coupleses are not quited to federal benefits unconstitutional when it goes to you could you vote in the affirmative for a justice that mighters are vow v wade. menendez: i'm not going have a test like that. i had experience helping to nominate judges, confirming judges to the state peer your court and the state supreme court as a member of the judiciary and the member of the state senate. i'm going to look to nominees for the intelligent, their experience, for their predispositions to not legislate from the bench, and look to nominees of the president of either party and treat them fairly. as i have in the past. >> moderator: senator. glen i agree with my opponent the various elements is very important to anyone who wants to be a diswruj or justice of the supreme court. certainly intelligent, temperament, experience, observe of the rule of law, precedent. but the supreme court is the final word of what is the law of the land. and so therefor